Privacy Policy

The STTARS Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement : The STTARS website is operated by Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service Inc (ABN 66 791 296 287) under the domain name www.sttars.org.au.

STTARS respects and is committed to protecting your privacy. STTARS is committed to compliance with the laws that protect your Personal Information, including the Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles. The personal information you provide will remain private and will only be used for the purposes outlined here. STTARS will not share, sell, lend or rent your personal information to be used by outside parties without your explicit permission. Your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by STTARS. STTARS shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information transmitted to or by this site.

If you have any queries about our privacy statement you can contact us by:

Calling us on (08) 8206 8900 during business hours (9am-5pm ACST) or using the Contact form on the Contact us page;

or by mail to STTARS, 81 Angas Street, Adelaide 5000 South Australia

What information will be collected from the website? When you visit our website or download information, we collect public only website usage statistics for the sole purpose of improving the performance and usability of our website.

Data Security

We will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse or loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Disclosure of personal information

We will not sell, lend or rent any of your personal (or financial) information without your explicit consent. The only exception to this is where STTARS may be required to disclose certain information if:

The disclosure is required or authorised by law;

An investigation of suspected fraud or unlawful activity has been or is being conducted by the organisation and the information is disclosed to relevant persons or authorities;

The organisation believes the disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance of its functions;

The use or disclosure is required for the preparation for or the conduct of legal proceedings or for the implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal. Access to personal information Wherever possible, and if it is lawful, we will let you see the information we hold about you and correct it if it is wrong.

Please make your request in writing and mail it to: STTARS, 81 Angas Street, Adelaide 5000, South Australia

email us via the Contact form on the Contact us page.

We will only respond to a request if your postal address is specified.

How we handle emails: We will preserve the content of any email that you send us if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Any personal information contained in your email, including your email address, will be used or disclosed in ways set out in this privacy statement. Your email message content may be monitored by our Internet Service Provider or STTARS employees for troubleshooting and maintenance purposes or where email abuse is suspected. Email is an insecure communications medium: it should not be used for confidential correspondence.

Outside links: This site contains hypertext links to other websites. STTARS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices, and we recommend that you read the privacy policy of such sites to familiarise yourself with their respective privacy practices.

The STTARS website is operated by Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service Inc (ABN 66 791 296 287) under the domain name www.sttars.org.au. STTARS respects and is committed to protecting your privacy.

STTARS is committed to compliance with the laws that protect your Personal Information, including the Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles. The personal information you provide will remain private and will only be used for the purposes outlined here. STTARS will not share, sell, lend or rent your personal information to be used by outside parties without your explicit permission. Your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by STTARS.

STTARS shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information transmitted to or by this site. If you have any queries about our privacy statement you can contact us by:

Sending an email via the Contact form on the Contact us page.

Calling us on (08) 8206 8900 during business hours (9am-5pm ACST);

or by mail to STTARS, 81 Angas Street, Adelaide 5000 South Australia